Fahad Ahmed
Executive director of DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) and DRUMBEATS, a grassroots organizer and socialist strategist focused on mobilizing low-income South Asian and Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers around immigrant rights, labor, and police accountability.
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May 6, 2026 • 2h 16min
Organizing Zohran’s NYC w/ Alina Shen and Fahd Ahmed
Alina Shen, Organizing Director at CAV, builds tenant and youth power in Chinese and Bengali neighborhoods. Fahad Ahmed, executive director of DRUM, organizes low-income South Asian and Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers. They discuss building multiracial working-class power, tactical organizing for a left mayoral campaign, tensions of governing versus grassroots pressure, and strategies for housing, policing, and movement infrastructure.
May 7, 2026 • 2h 16min
The Dig: Organizing Zohran’s NYC w/ Alina Shen and Fahd Ahmed
Alina Shen, Organizing Director at CAV who builds tenant and youth power in NYC. Fahad Ahmed, executive director of DRUM, a grassroots organizer mobilizing low-income South Asian and Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers. They discuss organizing neighbors into Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, neighborhood outreach tactics, building mass organizations, navigating power after a win, and the central contradictions around the NYPD.
